China: Power shortage: 6,400 factories to go off-line
Due to summer’s unquenchable power thirst, about 6,400 industrial enterprises in and around Beijing will be shut down for a week.
China Daily
Brinkmanship In The South Pacific
I would venture to speculate that the coming together of the strongest armada in history has more to do with oil and natural gas and nothing to do with Taiwan.
Peak Oil Debate Still Rages
Michael C. Lynch, the most vocal critic of Colin Campbell and other oil depletion ‘pessimists,’ tries to point out that within this debate we are dealing with a lot of assumptions and many unknowns.
Deep Water Covers 180B Bbls Undiscovered Oil, Gas – Study
Deep water covers 180 billion barrels of the world’s undiscovered oil and natural gas reserves, more than twice the amount yet found, Scottish energy consultants Wood Mackenzie said Wednesday.
Nuclear reactors will supply Ontario’s power, province says
The government of Ontario Wednesday announced plans to rebuild one nuclear power plant in Pickering and possibly rebuild two others.
The Venezuelan Referendum, Beware Jimmy Carter!
On August 14, 2004, Venezuelan voters will decide on a referendum, which has the utmost world historic and strategic significance. What is at stake is nothing less than the future of the energy world, the relations between the US and Latin America (particularly Cuba), and the political and socio-economic fate of millions of Venezuela’s urban and rural poor.
Nine reasons the peak now looks more imminent
When Richard Heinberg wrote The Party’s Over he expected that global oil production peak would most likely to fall within the window of 2006 to 2015. These days (18 months after the book was finished) he’s “more likely to say 2006 to 2010.” Here’s nine events which explain that.
Report warns on soaring US natural gas prices
North America will experience the highest sustained natural gas prices in
history if no measures are taken to boost supply or damp demand, according to a
study released on Friday by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA).
Review: The Truth about Oil and the Looming World Energy Crisis
The booklet addresses the topic of Peak Oil in a novel and refreshing way, as a commentary on an imaginary Public Inquiry.
U.S., Saudi Ties Could Face Changes with Kerry
When John Kerry is president, decades-old ties with Saudi Arabia could be in for an overhaul as he combats terrorism and reduces U.S. dependence on Mideast oil.
Skids are Greased for Oil Crisis
When geologists speak of Hubbert’s Peak, they’re not talking mountaintops or hairdos. They’re referring to a time – maybe not so far off – when the world will run out of fertile new oilfields and new ways to recover oil, and petroleum supplies will begin an inevitable and maybe very fast slide.
The Price of Oil
Every conflict since World War One has been influenced by oil in some way.
